Global renewable energy generation to hit 320 GW this year
Renewable energy capacity will increase by 8% to 320 GW this year, Ivanhoe Mines founder and CEO Robert Friedland told the Investing in African Mining Indaba earlier this month at an event themed on the comment of former US President John F Kennedy that the moon launch was being undertaken “not because it was easy, but because it was hard”.
“Don’t tell me we have to burn coal. You can say burning coal’s legitimate for Africa to survive as we find a better solution. That’s very true. No one can lecture us that you mustn’t have electrical energy.
“But don’t tell me there isn’t a solution just because it’s hard,” said Friedland, who described the decision of the US to set aside $370-billion in the next ten years for renewable energy, pollution reduction and environmental justice as “baby steps for baby feet” and highlighted China as ‘leading the way’ in wind, solar and new energy grid.
Declaring that nothing is impossible, he displayed a new electric aircraft, for which an airline has put in an order for 100, “just to start”.
“It’s hard to fly on Mars because the air is so thin and people said, well let’s figure out a helicopter that can fly on Mars. We put that helicopter up there. It was designed to fly five times. That was the dream but engineers worked like crazy and they put that helicopter up there that’s flown 81 times, successfully, looking at the red planet,” he said as he displayed the aircraft, accompanied by these recorded words: “Sometimes we have to do something just to show that we can do it.”
Friedland revealed that Ivanhoe has an American innovative company that functions in the spirit of Kennedy and the Wright brothers, who developed the world’s first aeroplane.
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